Newberry House, Historical residence in Aspen, United States.
Newberry House is a two-and-a-half-story wooden residence located in Aspen with distinct exterior treatments on different levels. The lower floor features clapboard siding while the upper levels are clad in wooden shingles.
The house was built around 1890 during Aspen's silver mining boom when the city was rapidly expanding. Judge William Shaw later made it his residence for several decades, establishing a significant chapter in the building's past.
The house stands in Hallam's Subdivision, named for an early developer who bought the tract in the early 1880s intending a park with walks, drives and pavilions, and a lake stocked with trout. Only the pavilions were ever built; houses replaced the plan. The attached carriage house, with four sliding doors, is the only one of its kind in Aspen.
The property sits at the intersection of Lake Avenue with North First and West Smuggler streets in a quiet residential neighborhood. Since it remains a private residence, visitors should approach with appropriate respect for the occupants.
The house retains an attached carriage house with four sliding doors projecting from its rear, a feature found on no other house in Aspen. The property also kept its name from an early owner, Mrs. Alex Tompkins, who sold it to Judge Shaw in 1922 and is otherwise unrecorded.
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